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The iPhone was supposed to revolutionize our lives. Why is it ruining mine? (Salon.c)

cellocello said:
But ... how is any of that Apple's fault?
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I don't think that's her point at all.

If your view is correct, the end to her story doesn't make much sense. She would have switched to another phone at the end if that was her point.

She also would have put Apple's quotes about high satisfaction numbers near the start of the article rather than at the end, where you can't help but dwell on them after you're done reading.
 
The title should be

The iPhone was supposed to revolutionize our lives. Why am I ruining mine!!!!!
 
Small White Car said:
You said it had little direction. I thought it was quite clear, as I've just explained above.

If you say something isn't clear, and I say I understood it perfecly then that doesn't seem like an opinion to me. It's just an opinion that I understood it? That seems more like a fact.
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It is an opinion. Ever given directions to a few people. Some people find the destination and others don't. Same directions. Who is to say if they are good directions or not good directions?

Not going to get into a discussion on this though - it's off topic and a waste of bandwidth.
 
Small White Car said:
If your view is correct, the end to her story doesn't make much sense. She would have switched to another phone at the end if that was her point.
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Well ... I mean, if what you're saying is true, she's just looking for something she'll never find. No phone will provide what she's talking about.

I guess maybe she should have titled her piece "Modern society was supposed to revolutionize our lives. Why is it ruining mine?" :confused:
 
Lakerfan210 said:
The title should be
The iPhone was supposed to revolutionize our lives. Why am I ruining mine!!!!!
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cellocello said:
I guess maybe she should have titled her piece "Modern society was supposed to revolutionize our lives. Why is it ruining mine?" :confused:
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Notice how you both made "joke" titles that were actually pretty similar in concept? (In other words: Looking for the cure is what causes our problmes.)

I think you've both 'got it' now, but you're just not sure so you pretend to be sarcastic. But the fact is, you both came to the same conclusion here, which probably means something. If you were just joking, these joke ideas would have been all over the place.
 
iPhone

The iPhone is not a good choice for, as the author admits, someone who is clumsy, scatterbrained, and accident prone. I had an old motorola flip phone that I didn't pay much attention to, in terms of concerns about dropping it, leaving in my car on a hot day, etc. The iPhone, because it's an expensive investment with an exposed touchscreen, does require more care and attention. I'm more mindful now of how I carry it, where I leave it, keeping it away from liquid, and I put it in my pocket when my attention is drawn away from it. It is a mild adjustment, but the usefulness of the iPhone in my mind outweighs those concerns.

It seems like this article has a lot of projection, or the author displacing the qualities she dislikes about herself onto the phone (pure speculation on my part!) :D
 
GeneralP said:
wow... and what does hair color have to do with anything?
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Not, hair color, a state of being defined by society ...

Doesn't help that she is, "I'm clumsy, scatterbrained and accident-prone."

But, alas, since she can actually write an article most likely means she fails the IQ portion of the blonde test.
 
Small White Car said:
Notice how you both made "joke" titles that were actually pretty similar in concept? (In other words: Looking for the cure is what causes our problmes.)

I think you've both 'got it' now, but you're just not sure so you pretend to be sarcastic. But the fact is, you both came to the same conclusion here, which probably means something. If you were just joking, these joke ideas would have been all over the place.
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haha ... settle down big boy.

I always "got it" (we're not talking about high literature here), but I think you're giving the author waaaay too much credit.

She's just blaming the iPhone for not blowing her mind on a daily basis. Not the BlackBerry, not pomegranate juice, not facebook, not her Dyson vacuum. She's not making sweeping and piercing commentary about the futility of modern life.

She's just bitching cause the iPhone isn't "teh awesome" anymore (to her), and was just venting in an Op Ed piece (which is exactly what this was).

Like ... are you being sarcastic?
 
dbwie said:
The iPhone is not a good choice for, as the author admits, someone who is clumsy, scatterbrained, and accident prone. I had an old motorola flip phone that I didn't pay much attention to, in terms of concerns about dropping it, leaving in my car on a hot day, etc. The iPhone, because it's an expensive investment with an exposed touchscreen, does require more care and attention. I'm more mindful now of how I carry it, where I leave it, keeping it away from liquid, and I put it in my pocket when my attention is drawn away from it. It is a mild adjustment, but the usefulness of the iPhone in my mind outweighs those concerns.
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This is what jarred with me in the article. She complained about the number of iPhones she'd had (italics are added) :

The next one wasn't around long: I dropped it; it shattered. My third, a fussbudget sort, got a little bit damp and refused to work. Now, I am on my fourth iPhone, whose screen cracked weeks ago, and which plagues me daily with its many bugs and quirks and connectivity issues
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So she dropped a phone whose entire front is glass, then she got an electric device wet and is complaining about this? I also disliked how she phrased the damage to her 4th phone as if it cracked itself.

And talking about when she first bought one:

Almost immediately the iPhone began to compromise my quality of life. It wouldn't let me search for an e-mail or send or receive photos via text. (Does anyone even bother to type in that jumble of letters and numbers to view a photo?) I had been warned about its deficits in advance
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Then why did you buy it? I really like sending mms (sshhh the lot of you email lovers) and I bought the iPhone knowing I wouldn't be able to. I dealt.

Complaints about AT&T may well be justified (although as someone who's used a 2G phone with several British providers I have never had a problem with reception. It's not the phone) but complaining about breaking the phone yourself and either not having researched it properly, or disregarding what you knew about the software, just annoyed me.

And incidentally, if something doesn't work for me I CHANGE PRODUCT.
 
Small White Car said:
These aren't just new phones. This is the era of mobile computing starting, and it's very, very different from what we had before. (snip)
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This is the era of POPULAR mobile computing starting.

Many of us have been mobile for a decade, and we were already using Google maps, voice activated search, apps, touch, etc.

But now it's similar to when AOL let the masses onto the Internet, with up and downsides. More users brings more apps, but more congestion and drivel, along with even smartphones having to be dumbed down.
 
I recall that my phone reception was always much worse in my parents basement. I haven't read her article but I don't have much to complain about with my iPhone. I think some people just like to bash things just because they were frustrated with how they handled things.

Hope she gets a blackberry storm, which was the phone I had prior to getting an iphone. You want to talk about crap, talk about RIMs crappy job of making a touchscreen device. It got to the point where if I even said I had issues that were software related, Verizon wouldn't even ask, they just would replace it.
 
Better phone? whiny consumer!

alent1234 said:
i carry an iphone and a blackberry

the BB gets better reception in the middle of a 16 story building i work in twice a week. and it's faster to check email on it and the battery lasts longer on it if you only do email.

otherwise iphone beats all the other phones on features and vesatility
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Yes the Sony Ericsson & BB were great phones in thier day. So was my Motorola SLVR ($500) but every phone I replace, the new one has features I didn't know I could live without.
Long live portable computing, which is the iPhone for now.
 
tonyshucraft said:
Hope she gets a blackberry storm, which was the phone I had prior to getting an iphone. You want to talk about crap, talk about RIMs crappy job of making a touchscreen device. It got to the point where if I even said I had issues that were software related, Verizon wouldn't even ask, they just would replace it.
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Indeed, someone I know has one of these and it's crap, the internet browser is HORRIBLE and you cannot type properly with that SureYouWon'tHitTheRightLetterTouch screen!
 
"On a BlackBerry, you can feel the discrete keys, Braille-like, as you hit them; this allows for multitasking or surreptitious working (under the table at dinner, say, or -- terrible but true -- while driving)."

Maybe the iPhone's sturdiness is the least of her issues. I hope she doesn't live in my city and drive my streets and freeways.
 
Unspoken Demise said:
But this phone was supposed to revolutionize my life! It cant send or recieve MMS?
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It can't recieve or receive them!

And NOT having MMS is revolutionizing your life. Everyone else has it - so you care moving in another direction altogether. A utopia where MMS does not exist and you are free to email on your unlimited data plan - just as long as you don't tether, drop your iphone in water or sit on your screen...
 
sikkinixx said:
All I have to say, after wasting precious moments of my life reading the article, is just buy a new phone and call it a day. I think people just love to be able to complain about things. You bought a product you believe to be of poor quality, sell it and carry on.
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But the article is precisely about that. At the end she gave up on the 3G and decided to move on with the 3GS, hoping that this time it would be different.
 
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